Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from March 2008

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from March 2008

Elizabethan play-boys in the adult London companies.(London, England)(Essay)
March 22, 2008... The common assumption among drama scholars that the major Elizabethan and early Stuart dramatic companies recruited, maintained, and graduated their play-boys on the same model as the London guild companies has long dominated the context in...

Doctor Faustus and the printers devil.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... In Actes and Monuments, his encyclopedic history of the English church, John Foxe pauses in his account of the reign of Henry VI to celebrate the invention of the printing press, which he praises as a catalytic tool of the Reformation. Print...

Patient Grissil and Jonsonian Satire.(Ben Jonson)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... It has long been recognized that a sequence in III.ii of Patient Grissil, written by Thomas Dekker, Henry Chettle, and William Haughton between October and December 1599 and apparently performed at the Rose the following January or February,...

Gertrude's elusive libido and Shakespeare's unreliable narrators.(William Shakespeare)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... I would like to begin by examining the striking differences that appear in the three statements we are given in Hamlet about Gertrude's sexuality--differences that I believe, in the words of what used to be the standard opening gambit of...

Kent and primogeniture in king lear.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... Vanguard of Liberty, ye Men of Kent, Ye Children of a Soil that doth advance It's [sic] haughty brow against the coast of France, Now is the time to prove your hardiment! To France be words of invitation sent! They from...

Siring the grandchild in the winter's tale and the fawn.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... In Desiderius Erasmus's "Encomium Matrimonii," a famous source for Shakespeare's "procreation sonnets," the humanist urges a young man to marry and reproduce. The rhetoric is intense: without children, Erasmus warns his addressee (in Thomas...

Single parenting, homeschooling: Prospero, Caliban, Miranda.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... In The Tempest, Caliban describes Prospero as initially a caring schoolmaster: When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me, and made much of me, wouldst give me Water with berries in 't, and teach me how To name the bigger light,...

The end of the English history play in Perkin Warbeck.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... John Ford's Perkin Warbeck has been called a "fascinating oddity" for its revival of the Elizabethan English history play at a moment when the history play had long been out of favor. (1) What makes Perkin Warbeck an anomaly, an "oddity," is...

Performance, performativity, and identity in Margaret Cavendish's the convent of pleasure.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... One of the most prolific writers in the early modern period, Margaret Cavendish developed a reputation for eccentricity that began in the seventeenth century and remains in force today. A wealthy royalist, she spent most other adult life...

Recent studies in Tudor and Stuart drama.(Recommended readings)
March 22, 2008... All of what you've heard is true. I did buy an extra bookcase. The review did take over my life. Friends and family--and especially my eight-year-old son--would routinely ask, early each month, "How many books this time?" I did miss a family...

Books received.
March 22, 2008... BOOKS RECEIVED Appelbaum, Robert. Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture, and Food among the Early Moderns. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xxii + 378. [dollar]32.50. ISBN...